Wicker Lampshades and Lightshades

Wicker Lampshades and Lightshades: The Modern Way To Go Vintage

For years, wicker lampshades and lightshades have been considered a favourite accessory to match with a new conservatory’s modern wicker furniture. Recently, with so much emphasis placed on sustainable products, wicker furniture and accessories are becoming increasingly popular indoors. On eBay, you will find a large selection of wicker lampshades and lightshades in a range of prices, sizes, and styles.

Wicker lampshades and lightshades come in such a variety of shapes, styles, and natural hues they can be used with almost any types of furniture and décor in the home. No matter what style of furniture you have, you can use wicker lightshades with floor lamps, ceiling lamps, table lamps, and pendant lamps.

• Put the finishing touches to your conservatory patio furniture, with self-standing lamps and pendant lamps shaded with wicker lampshades.
• In the kitchen, compliment your wicker backed kitchen chairs and bar stools, by adding wicker lampshades to the pendant lighting.
• In the bathroom, a wicker lightshade will add a little subtle ambience, and set off your woven wicker wash-basket and bamboo window blinds.

As a general rule, you won’t need to change any of your lamp fittings, when changing to wicker lampshades or lightshades. Nonetheless, it’s always worth checking the lampshade for any maximum wattage warnings. In the past, lampshades made of certain materials would often have a sticker on the shade, recommending a certain maximum wattage. With today’s modern LED lighting, low wattage bulbs produce the same amount of light as higher watt incandescent bulbs. If you haven’t yet changed to energy-saving LED lighting, now is a good time to start.

Rattan is a vine that grows in Australasia, Asia, and Africa, and is harvested for a variety of uses. A vine that often reaches 3 inches in diameter, the outer bark is stripped, and used for furniture weaving, while the solid cane is often used to shape the furniture’s framework, using steam to attain the contours. Other materials used in the same way include willow, rush, and bamboo.

Wicker is not a material but the method used to manufacture the furniture or other accessories, i.e. the woven design. Consequently, if you purchase a ‘Rattan Wicker Lampshade’, you are buying a lampshade with a woven design, made from the rattan vine. A non-specified wicker lampshade could be made from rattan, willow, rush, bamboo, or some other weavable material.